Islam holds that the Qur’an was revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jibrīl (Gabriel) over a period of approximately twenty-three years, beginning in 610 CE, when he was forty, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God. The Qur’an Arabic: القرآن al-qur’ān, literally “the recitation”) is the c… Read Full Bio ↴ The Qur’an Arabic: القرآن al-qur’ān, literally “the recitation”) is the central religious text of Islam, also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran or Al-Qur’ān.
